However, if give you must, then one of the best ways to do so , in the true spirit of the Christmas season, is to participate in the Buy 1 Get 1 program, which lets you get your own XO laptop while also giving another one to a deserving family.

Not only is the XO laptop a truly global computing platform, it is green in that it is friendly to the environment.

It is global in that it uses very little power, about one-tenth of the power needed for current laptops.